So many Galaxy's You know how many of these I have to fix at work due to manufacuturing defects? Badly placed components, shields missing, FPCB's already pre-ripped, their QC sucks. I don't recommend them.

I thought i'd be smart and grab an S3...
the only one I could buy at the time was the 16gb one,
i love the phone with the exception of awful battery life and it's far too big,even with my big hands...I very much doubt i'd buy another one of them though..

I thought i'd be smart and grab an S3...
the only one I could buy at the time was the 16gb one,
i love the phone with the exception of awful battery life and it's far too big,even with my big hands...I very much doubt i'd buy another one of them though..

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Some running apps will cane battery life, try and turn off as many as possible. I know you muck about with a lot of tech so might aswell share a few tricks I learnt that'll work with most new Samsung's:

If you forget all the passwords and PINs and can't access your phone, you can still do a full reset;
Remove batt and put batt back in and hold: volume up, center button (at bottom) and power button until screen lights up. Use volume buttons to scroll down to "wipe partition" and press center/power button to select. scroll down to "Yes" and select it, then if it asks for password, keep on entering the wrong password; a different password every time (<- important, must be wrong pass every time, different pass each time). It will reset and PIN's will be wiped (not SIM PIN obviously )

Cheers Sam!
I did try rooting it so I could then disable crap I don't want or need,without it restarting itself after a minute or two,but it didn't really work ?!?
The rooting went ok and I just assumed that now I got admin status I could permanently stop stuff...any clues why it didn't work?

Cheers Sam!
I did try rooting it so I could then disable crap I don't want or need,without it restarting itself after a minute or two,but it didn't really work ?!?
The rooting went ok and I just assumed that now I got admin status I could permanently stop stuff...any clues why it didn't work?

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That's definitely out of my expertise I only fix them atm. I don't like touchscreen phones so I don't think I'll ever learn how to root one

The S3 battery life is fantastic, I have one of those as well. I get well over a day of heavy use with it...and that's on the stock rom. My HOX has a way worse battery life. My Lumia 920 does trump them all though.

So many Galaxy's You know how many of these I have to fix at work due to manufacuturing defects? Badly placed components, shields missing, FPCB's already pre-ripped, their QC sucks. I don't recommend them.

The S3 battery life is fantastic, I have one of those as well. I get well over a day of heavy use with it...and that's on the stock rom. My HOX has a way worse battery life. My Lumia 920 does trump them all though.

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As is mine I can get at least a day out of it which beats all of my previous smart phones.

Looks like I'll be returning my Lumia 920 and going with a Nexus 4. I'm having weird battery draining probs, lack luster support from ATT when trying to add a second like (weird, I want to give them more business, but they don't get IT), and a few things just simply lacking from Windows Phone 8 in general that I was hoping would be here by now.

I'll miss it dearly though, the 920 is a beautiful device with an amazing camera, its really a shame everything else lacks. > : (

Nice! I love the design of that phone, personally. I'm on Verizon, though, and doubt there will ever be an LTE model (although the phone does have an LTE chip onboard).

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It's a damn nice phone. I really have no need for LTE since HSPA+ here is more than enough. Can get 20-23mb down if I'm in the main Tucson area's, at my house (where LTE would never be anyware), I still get 6-8mb down (this is with T-Mobile). Loving the Nexus 4 so far.